baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2583597-A (GB)
Title: Floating deck assembly
Inventor: SHANE CARR
IPC: B63C1/02
Filed: 2018-01-24
Abstract: A floating dry dock assembly 102 is provided, the assembly comprising a deck assembly 2 having an upper deck surface, a plurality of buoyant vessels 108 connected to the deck assembly and able to support the deck assembly, each buoyant vessel being moveable vertically with respect to the deck assembly. A method of raising a vessel 200 from water using the floating dry dock assembly is also disclosed. The method comprises sinking the deck assembly below the vessel to be raised, supporting the deck assembly using the buoyant vessels at the surface of the water, manoeuvring the deck assembly below the vessel to be raised and raising the deck assembly and the vessel to be raised.
Patent GB-2587859-A (GB)
Title: Method for cutting street metals
Inventor: STEPHEN JOHN PAUL
IPC: B26F1/40
Filed: 2018-03-09
Abstract: A die block 211 with a cutting edge 217 is provided along with a trim punch 220. The punch edge 221 is movable with respect to the die block. A metal sheet 250 is placed on the block such that an edge 251 protrudes over the edge of the block. The punch is then moved into contact with the die block and then beyond the edge to create a sheering force on the metal sheet. Simultaneously the punch is moved such that the clearance between the punch edge, die block cutting edge and metal sheet increases as the punch moves past the die block cutting edge (arrows 103). Preferably the trim punch moves along an angled guide surface 230. The trim punch may be moved between a first extended and second retracted position such that the shearing force increases gradually as the punch moves between the first and second position.
Patent GB-2596599-A (GB)
Title: Method of and apparatus for determining variations in wall thickness in ferromagnetic tubes
Inventor: SAID ASSOUS
IPC: G01B7/06
Filed: 2020-07-03
Abstract: A method of determining ferromagnetic tube wall thickness variations comprises: a) energizing the tube with a longitudinally extending magnetic field 47 inside the tube; b) using a magnetic field-detecting logging tool 44, 47, to generate magnetic flux signals at plural circumferential and longitudinal locations on the tube inner surface; c) iteratively using a relationship model between flux signals and the tube wall thickness to derive a wall thickness profile using the tube material magnetic permeability deduced from the flux signals and a defect-free flux parameter representative of any non-linearity between the field strength and flux density in the tube, the iteration including: d) calculating an initial approximate wall thickness profile with a defect-free flux parameter initial estimate; e) calculating a metric representative of the magnitude of physically inadmissible features of the thickness profile; f) determining an inadmissible features metric quantitative norm; g) varying the value of the defect-free flux parameter to minimize the quantitative norm and selecting that defect free flux parameter; and h) generating one or more signals representing the thickness profile resulting from use of the selected defect-free flux parameter as the tube wall thickness profile.
Patent GB-2585302-A (GB)
Title: Organs-on-chips as a platform for epigenetics discovery
Inventor: CATHERINE KARALIS
IPC: G01N33/50
Filed: 2019-02-22
Abstract: The present invention relates to microfluidic fluidic devices, methods and systems for use in identifying epigenetic signatures in a range of sample types, e.g., cells established on a "chip" (including but not limited to single cell samples, cell populations, cell layers and whole tissues, such as a biopsy), immune cells, cfDNA, exosomes, and the like. More specifically, in some embodiments, a microfluidic chip containing a sample is contacted with a test compound (e.g. DNA altering test compound, an RNA expression altering test compound, etc.) for use in providing a diagnostic epigenetic signature for that type of sample (or cell type) exposed to that specific test compound. In some embodiments, after contact with a test compound, effluent fluids (e.g. fluids exiting the "chip" that contacted the cells) are derived for testing as a "virtual blood draw." In some embodiments, epigenetic signatures include (but are not limited to) identifying specific combinations of modifications of chromosomes and specific modifications of DNA.
Patent GB-2598570-A (GB)
Title: Bumper assembly
Inventor: ANDREW JOHN SYVRET
IPC: B60R19/40
Filed: 2020-09-02
Abstract: A bumper assembly 114 for a vehicle 110 having a vehicle structure defining a longitudinal axis 158, the bumper assembly comprising: a bumper beam 122 extending in a vehicle width direction; an energy absorption system (162, figure 6) fixedly attached to the bumper beam for absorbing impact energy when an object impacts the bumper assembly; and, a mounting mechanism for fixing the bumper assembly to the vehicle structure, wherein the energy absorption system is configured to deploy the bumper beam between first 154 and second 160 positions along the longitudinal axis relative to the vehicle structure. The energy absorption system may comprise a pair of hydraulically activated pistons (164) housed in recesses in longitudinal members (118) of the vehicle. A control system may be provided such that the energy absorption system deploys the bumper beam to the second position when a row of foldable vehicle seats 146 is in a deployed position and possibly occupied. In the event of an impact the bumper beam may be forced to move to a third position (196, figure 9).
Patent GB-2604315-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to clamps
Inventor: DANIEL SCOTT
IPC: F16L23/06
Filed: 2020-10-09
Abstract: A clamp 10 for coupling two mating (pipe) flanges, the clamp comprising first jaw member 12 pivotally mounted 16 to a second jaw member 14 and having at its free end (20) an articulated lever 30 with a latch, the latch engageable with a catch 50 (52) disposed at the free end 18 of the second jaw member 14, wherein the clamp has an open configuration in which the free ends of the jaw members are displaced apart and two mating flanges may be received between the jaw members, and a closed configuration in which the free ends of the jaw members are proximal to one another, wherein the lever 30 is moveable between an unlocked configuration wherein the latch is displaced away from the catch, and a locked configuration wherein the latch is received by and engages with the catch.
Patent GB-2596380-A (GB)
Title: Digital music instrument
Inventor: TOM STEFAN CLARKE
IPC: G10H1/34
Filed: 2021-02-17
Abstract: A digital music device 10 comprising an elongate body being dimensioned to enable one or more virtual styles of music instrument performance. The device has an input configured as a curved touchscreen 16, whose length is at least 75% of the length of the device and which allows a user to perform inputs in order to generate an audio output. The body may be a rigid plastic or thermoplastic and is preferably generally oval in cross-section along its longitudinal axis. The body may also include an integrally formed and ergonomically shaped mouthpiece 18 in the shape of a hemispherical dome which includes an air flow sensor for generating an audio output based on a user’s breath input and user inputs contacted on the radiused touchscreen. The device may include a logic board 36 housing a processor and communications module, and a battery 48. Output signals may be audio-visual, alphanumeric and/or haptic information. The device may simulate a keyboard, bowed or plucked string, aerophone or percussion instrument.
Patent GB-2604174-A (GB)
Title: Method of monitoring and influencing an additive layer manufacturing process
Inventor: Harry Kenneth Shuttleworth
IPC: B33Y50/02
Filed: 2021-02-26
Abstract: An additive layer manufacturing process, comprises selective fusing of powder material in successively applied layers, delivering a quantity of powder material in excess of that required to form a layer 22 of a given volume in a build zone and spreading the powder material to form the layer and an accumulation 23 of excess powder material, repeating the steps to form successive layers and accumulations, determining an approximate volume of each accumulation by imaging of a structured light pattern, which has been projected onto the respective accumulation, the imaging being from a direction different from a direction of the projection so that distortion of the projected pattern by the accumulation is produced in the imaged pattern and evaluating the imaged pattern to derive from the pattern distortion the approximate volume of the accumulation responsible for the distortion, and influencing the additive layer manufacturing process in dependence on the determined volumes of the accumulations. Influencing can be delivery of powder material, the supply of which can be set or adjusted with account taken of the volumes of the accumulations. Powder material reuse or recycling may allow an accelerated rate of production and reduce wastage of material. Defects may also be identified.
Patent GB-2590861-A (GB)
Title: Bend stiffener
Inventor: AUSTIN HARBISON
IPC: E21B17/01
Filed: 2015-07-09
Abstract: A bend stiffener (50 Fig.4) comprises an elongate stiffener body (52) of e.g. polymer material, has a root (54) and free (56) ends and a passage (58) extending through the body for receiving a flexible member e.g. a subsea riser. The body is flexible, yet stiff to resist excessive damaging flexible member curvature and recovers shape upon bending load relief. The body comprises two or more parts (64a, 64b) defining the passage and are separable, enabling introduction of the flexible member to the passage with subsequent re-assembly. Each body part is provided with and secured together by relatively stiffer interface members (68, 70). A coupling 266 at, or toward, the body root end comprises a flange 202 and optional through sleeve 204 is for cantilever mounting the stiffener to a structure. The coupling is embedded by moulding into the body, which is enhanced by plural upstands 208, each a shaped member secured at two separate locations to the coupling by e.g. bolting. The upstands may be planar, curved or serpentine and may be arranged tangentially, radially or inclined to the axis of the flange.
Patent GB-2598689-A (GB)
Title: Systems and methods for monitoring and treating diabetic foot ulcers
Inventor: Jonathan Edward Mika Belding
IPC: A61B5/00
Filed: 2020-05-21
Abstract: In some aspects, a computer-implemented method is disclosed for gathering and processing sensor data to identify a risk of impacting or causing a skin injury. The computer- implemented method can include: receiving, via a computer network, sensor feature data representing output of a user sensor configured to be worn on a limb of a user; generating activity classification model output data using the sensor feature data and an activity classification model, the activity classification model output data representing likelihoods that the sensor feature data corresponds to each of a plurality of different activity classifications; determining an activity classification from the activity classification model output data; and transmitting, via the computer network, display data representing the activity classification to a computing device configured to present the display data.
Patent GB-2603055-A (GB)
Title: Multi-functional slow cooker with temperature control features
Inventor: SEAN P HOLINKA
IPC: A47J27/086
Filed: 2020-08-20
Abstract: Slow cookers are described that have multiple cooking modes that are based on user selected choices, including the cooking mode and the desired doneness or temperature of the food product to be cooked. Preferably, plural cooking modes are provided to be selected that include the use of a temperature probe to provided temperature feedback information. A control module can be mounted to the slow cooking and programmed to control the multiple cooking modes and the temperature probe can be operatively connected to the control module to provide sensed temperature data for use in the various cooking modes. Preferably, the cooking modes using the temperature probe include the heating of a cooking vessel within the slow cooker for heating the food product or a liquid within the cooking vessel to a desired temperature and to permit the user greater flexibility in cooking options and to vary option at time during the cooking processes. Moreover, the cooking modes preferably also provide functionality to control the cooking processes after a selected temperature is attained.
Patent GB-2616076-A (GB)
Title: Plugging force test apparatus
Inventor: Marek Manterys
IPC: G01L5/00
Filed: 2022-02-28
Abstract: A test apparatus for verifying plugging force during assembly of a first electrical component having one or more electrical connection points for receiving one or more corresponding second electrical components in a push fit arrangement. The test apparatus comprises a load plate with a support surface and orthogonally arranged first and a second axes. A holder retains the first electrical component on the load plate. A plurality of load cells support the load plate at spaced locations about the load plate. A plugging force applied to the first electrical component via the second electrical component is transferred to the plurality of load cells. A processor is provided for receiving load cell data from the load cells corresponding to the force applied to each load cell respectively. The processor determines the magnitude of the plugging force and the location at which the plugging force is applied to the first electrical comment relative to the first and second axes of the load plate based on the load cell data and the location of the load cells relative to the load plate. Another aspect is a method of conducting a plugging force verification test using the apparatus.
Patent GB-2619084-A (GB)
Title: A Self-Propelled Gun System
Inventor: RICHARD PETER LEWIN
IPC: F41A21/00
Filed: 2022-05-27
Abstract: A self-propelled gun system (10 Fig 1) defining a recoil mitigation system (100 Fig 1) comprising a chassis (200 Fig 1), a gun barrel 300 and a chassis suspension system (400 Fig 1). The chassis suspension system comprises a first wheel arm (402) extending away from the chassis to a first wheel (404), the first wheel being rotatably mounted on the first wheel arm. The first wheel is configured to engage with a support surface (500). The first wheel arm and first wheel are configured to support the chassis a distance Dz away from the support surface. The recoil mitigation system is operable such that a maximum recoil damping distance Dz_max of the chassis from the support surface in the z-axis is variable, allowing the available damping distance in the z-axis to absorb the recoil force produced from firing the gun. The gun system further comprises a first wheel brake control device (600 Fig 8) that is configured to apply a braking force to the wheel when there is a movement of the chassis in the x-axis due to the recoil force produced from firing of a projectile from the gun barrel.
Patent GB-2614600-A (GB)
Title: Reinforcement material for composite laminate
Inventor: ROBERT BURNELL
IPC: B32B5/26
Filed: 2022-11-17
Abstract: The multilayer fabric 403 comprises two sheets 600, 900 of woven tows of fibres which are impregnated with a polymer 903 and adhered together. Each sheet is woven in a satin weave with long floats on at least one side. The sheets are placed face to face with the long floats on each sheet being arranged in parallel, thereby minimising the empty space (air pockets) 905, 906 between the sheets 600, 900. Preferably each sheet has a basis weight of 500-525 g/m2. The composite is shaped by a pattern or mould. The preferred laminate comprises five layers of the satin prepreg and additional woven fabrics with lower area density placed at a skew angle and polymer coating. The reinforcement is used in automotive, aerospace and electricity generation industries, body armour and sporting goods.
Patent GB-2610751-A (GB)
Title: Secure data replication in distributed data storage environments
Inventor: ANTHONY THOMAS SOFIA
IPC: G06F16/27
Filed: 2021-04-27
Abstract: A described method includes receiving, by a database system, an instruction to change a first data element in a table in a database, which includes a first copy and a second copy of the table. A first entry is created in a first change-table. The first entry includes an updated value for a first data element. A second entry is created in a second change-table. Creating the second entry includes, changing the updated value into a ciphertext if the first data element is secured, and storing the ciphertext into the second entry. If the first data element is non-secured, the updated value is stored into the second entry as is. The second copy of the table is modified using the second change-table. The second copy of the table is used to respond to subsequent queries.
Patent GB-2612206-A (GB)
Title: Complex human gut microbiome cultured in an anaerobic human gut-on-a-chip
Inventor: RICHARD NOVAK
IPC: C12N5/071
Filed: 2019-04-02
Abstract: A method of culturing comprising a microfluidic device comprising a first and second microchannel. The first microchannel comprising a plurality of intestinal epithelium cells in direct contact with a plurality of living microbes, comprising aerobic and anaerobic bacteria. Said first microchannel comprising an inlet and an outlet. The second microchannel comprises endothelial cells. Culture media is provided to the microfluidic device at a flow rate to support a co-culture of epithelium cells and microbes, wherein microbes are under low oxygen conditions and the epithelium cells exhibit an increase in barrier function. Preferably the microbial sample is a mammalian fecal sample. The device has a gas gradient, where the first microchannel is at a lower concentration than the second. The gas is selected from oxygen, nitrogen or carbon dioxide. The method further comprises increasing the flow rate for two minutes every twenty-four hours, collecting microbes from the outlet and detecting obligate anaerobes in the sample.
Patent GB-2611681-A (GB)
Title: Drift regularization to counteract variation in drift coefficients for analog accelerators
Inventor: HSIN YU TSAI
IPC: G06N3/10
Filed: 2021-06-04
Abstract: A drift regularization is provided to counteract variation in drift coefficients in analog neural networks. A method of training an artificial neural network is illustrated. A plurality of weights is randomly initialized. Each of the plurality of weights corresponds to a synapse of an artificial neural network. At least one array of inputs is inputted to the artificial neural network. At least one array of outputs is determined by the artificial neural network based on the at least one array of inputs and the plurality of weights. The at least one array of outputs is compared to ground truth data to determine a first loss. A second loss is determined by adding a drift regularization to the first loss. The drift regularization is positively correlated to variance of the at least one array of outputs. The plurality of weights is updated based on the second loss by backpropagation.
Patent GB-2612562-A (GB)
Title: Dedicated sub for look-ahead applications
Inventor: ANDREAS HARTMANN
IPC: G01V3/38
Filed: 2021-08-12
Abstract: A drilling system and a method of drilling a wellbore in an earth formation. A first antenna is disposed at a first location near a drill string. A second antenna is disposed at a second location of the drill string. The first antenna has a first specific moment. One of the first antenna and the second antenna is operated as a transmitter that transmits a transmitted signal, and the other is operated as a receiver that receives a received signal in response to the transmitted signal. The processor determines a property of an earth formation from the received signal.
Patent GB-2613982-A (GB)
Title: Three-dimensional nonwoven materials and methods of manufacturing thereof
Inventor: ANTONIO J CARRILLO OJEDA
IPC: D04H1/495
Filed: 2019-11-27
Abstract: A method form forming a three-dimensional material having nodes 21, ligaments 14 and apertures 24 comprises the steps of providing a precursor web, transferring the precursor web to a forming surface having a plurality of forming holes and a plurality of projections, and directing a plurality of pressurized fluid streams of entangling fluid at the precursor web to move some of the fibers into the plurality of forming holes to form nodes and to move some of the fibres around the projections to create openings.
Patent GB-2614646-A (GB)
Title: System to model distributed torque, drag and friction along a string
Inventor: Joern Koeneke
IPC: E21B44/04
Filed: 2021-09-14
Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing an operation in a wellbore penetrating the earth's formation. The apparatus includes a string and a first processor. The string is disposed in the wellbore. The first processor a first processor determines, by using a first friction test at a first friction test time, a first friction parameter between a first selected subregion and the wellbore and a second friction parameter between a second selected subregion and the wellbore.
Patent GB-2615264-A (GB)
Title: Conversion of text to dynamic video
Inventor: Jeffrey Jay Collier
IPC: G06T13/20
Filed: 2021-10-20
Abstract: The approach described herein for transforming text (including emojis) to video starts with one or more users writing a screenplay (text describing a video) and sending it to our software system, where typically the following five primary steps are taken to generate and/or distribute a video (figure 1): Edit, Transform, Build, Render, Distribute. These processes can happen in different orders at different times to enable the creation or display of a video. All processes are not always required to render a video and at times processes may be combined or their sub-processes expanded into their own separate process.
Patent GB-2619620-A (GB)
Title: Hairstyling edge-control systems and methods
Inventor: COI COLLINS
IPC: A45D24/04
Filed: 2022-01-05
Abstract: There are provided systems for styling hair, in particular, baby hairs. The systems include a hairstyling device having a handle and at least one of bristles or a row of teeth positioned on a side of one end of the handle. Also provided is a tail comb operatively attached to an opposite end of the handle, the tail comb being collapsible for storage in an interior portion of the handle of the handle.
Patent GB-2618028-A (GB)
Title: A data-generating procedure from raw tracking inputs
Inventor: SIDDHARTH AGRAWAL
IPC: G06T7/246
Filed: 2022-02-11
Abstract: The present invention relates to identifying and/or generating high quality training data. More particularly, the present invention relates to determining a subset of images from a dataset that can be used as substantially high quality training data for the training of movement detection systems. Aspects and/or embodiments seek to provide a system and/or method of generating substantially high quality training data for a security event detection method and/or system using video data from surveillance cameras as input data.
Patent GB-2618046-A (GB)
Title: Nozzle assembly for shunt tube systems
Inventor: STEPHEN MICHAEL GRECI
IPC: E21B43/08
Filed: 2021-04-06
Abstract: A wellbore downhole tool, comprising: a nozzle assembly, the nozzle assembly includes a nozzle including: a cylindrically-shaped tube with a substantially uniform outer diameter across substantially an entire height of the nozzle, at least one retaining body opening located in an outer wall of the nozzle; a holding body including: a conduit, the conduit sized to fit the nozzle there-through, an alignment opening extending from an outer surface of the holding body to the conduit; and a retaining body sized to fit within the alignment opening of the holding body and to contact the retaining body opening of the nozzle when the nozzle is inserted in the conduit such that the cylindrically-shaped tube of the nozzle cannot rotate or move further in or out of the conduit. A method of assembling the wellbore downhole tool is also described.